KE4AVB wrote:Just thinking are you using terminal splices for connecting the diode?
These are Briggs are using to attach the diodes. They are what you used on thermal fuses.
Arkie wrote:Appears someone had installed a battery in reverse before you got into it.
Be sure you install the diode with correct orientation (and the battery polarity connected properly also) or it will heat and short again if installed backwards and maybe take out the stator.
I've replaced those diodes with 5 amp type 100 PIV at least.
Instead of fooling around with them small crimps I just cut the old diode out slide a piece of heat shrink upon the stator lead and install a clamp on hemostat and and use a solder iron. Do the solder fast, have the wire tinned before applying solder iron. The hemostat will heat sink the heat going towards the diode. Excessive heat is what damages the diode, either from soldering or from excessive current.
Hope your stator is ok. Most generally just getting the flywheel off on some of them old rusty engines can be a chore. (and then find a magnet about to come loose)
I sometimes wait couple days for Murphy to move on.
You really took on a mess. I've got into stuff like that. It was running ok when it was parked.
10 years ago you find out later.
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